85 years and counting (and tweeting?)

World's longest married couple answers questions on twitter.  [via]

Ah, how do you say, "Pobre senorita, no esta es agredable... heh heh" ???

"Bueno, que tal?" indeed.

[via]

Temple Grandin's interesting TED talk

h/t to my sis

Personally, I'm still waiting for full-contact curling

not so cool

Srsly? [via teh intarnets...]

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I'm okay; You're okay; We're all okay!

The Straight Dope on Myers-Briggs (result, it's kinda junky science that makes people feel good about themselves)(I'm an INTJ - a scientist! I knew it!)

perspective

DC is not Siberia. (Which will be very apparent come August). [via]

the cos talks about his, very brief, ownership of a cobra

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[via]

CGI before the "C"

Very cool documentary about the making of HBO's logo back in the 1980's. [via]

"cool" thermometer

 

Rather nifty bit of modern design.  Bravo!

I love APOD

 

Teide Sky Trails
Credit & Copyright: Daniel López

Via 

They don't mention if he bought one afterwords

Also via my sister, Vice sends one of their hipsters to go try out some Colombian bullet proof clothing.  Which makes sense, because Brooklyn has a few to spare.

Bogota's bulletproof tailor

Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- Colombian tailor Miguel Caballero specializes in making garments that enable the wearer to get shot at point-blank range with nary an injury besides, maybe, a bruised ego. At-high-risk-of-catching-a-bullet demographics, such as rappers and politicians all over the world, rely on Miguel's handiwork. And, lucky me, when I was recently in Bogota for VBS.TV covering a few stories, I had the chance to visit Miguel's shop, learn about his protective clothing, and get shot in the gut by him. Seriously.

As my sister pointed out, one of the better lines is: "I shoot all my employees." Something to keep in mind the next time you have to run a HR gauntlet and feel annoyed because of the drug test.

It's only February but

...the 2010 Award for rambling yet oddly-captivating article about elevators is pretty much a lock: Up and Then Down. Congratulations to our winner, Nick Paumgarten - your check is in the mail.

Via my sister

Relativity

Pardon the bleeting, but we have been hammered this year.  In upstate NY you sorta expect five feet of snow once in awhile.  Not so much South of the Mason-Dixie line.

Into the great wide open

A night launch of the space shuttle.

Penthouse letters got nothing on this

From Ripley's Believe It or Not:

 

On a related note, the new Turbo S is out, in case your better half was filled with ennui at the thought of a mere 500HP from the plane-jane turbo variant.

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Rock'n'roll ain't noise pollution.  Well, okay, some of it is.  These posters can be found he'ah.

Well that explains a lot

New Windows Vista 3.1 upgrade package

Experience Windows 3.1, now in tasty web 2.0 form.   (FWIW, growing up in a teacher's house with Apple II's and Macs, so no MS-DOS/Windows 3's for me.  So yeah, I get to behold its glory for the first time.  The first cut's the deepest, bud.) [via]

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From the excellent Cycle Chic from Copenhagen

ridiculous

There is 24" of snow forecast tomorrow here in the DC area.  People were lined out the doors at grocery stores picking up their emergency potpourri rations (or so I heard - I did my shopping, in a very pedestrian way, yesterday.  Better to be lucky than good, son).  Anyway, someone needs to sacrifice a hecatomb on the stairs of the Jefferson Memorial or whatever it takes, because this weather is nuts.

Uff-da

The pipe make this a perfect 10 [via I don't remember where, sorry!]

Words to live by